Indeed. Ground pork, onions, gravy - that kind of thing. Faggot in the same vein as "faggot of wood", to whit a bundle of off-cuts. Faggots are frequently made of offal and less entertaining bits - me, I'm a rib-eye steak kinda guy, never did have a lot of time for offal. Too gamey for me.

There were TV ads for Brain's Faggots until the mid-to-late 80s here in the Uck. They looked much more appealing than I assume such as thing would be (cheapest possible meatball, and all that), but I seem to recall some low-brow tittering even then.

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